Controlling device for double doors.



No. 835,984. PATENTED NOV. 13;.1906. W. B. REIS.

CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR DOUBLE DOORS.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 7. 1906.

W/TNESSES lNVENTOf? ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B.. REIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR DOUBLE moons.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. REIs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Controlling Device for Double Doors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for controlling the movements of double doors, the device being adapted for use particularly in connection with doors of music-cabinets or the like, the object being to provide a simple means whereby com: paniondoors may be swung simultaneously to open position or to closed position by the manual manipulation of one door.

I will describe a controlling device for double doors embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claim;

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formin a part of this specification, in which si ar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional plan of the lower portion of a cabinet and a door-controlling device embodying my invention, showing the doors closed; and Fig. 2 is a similar plan, but showing the doors 0 en.

Referring to the rawings, 1 designates a cabinet, and 2 a bottom or flooring thereof. The front of the cabinet is provided with two swinging doors 3 4. Secured. t0 the bottom or flooring 2 is a uide rod or rail 5, which is raised somewhat from the bottom or flooring,

and movable on this rod or rail is a slide, here shown as consisting of a sleeve 6, and from this sleeve links 7 8 extend to pivotal connection, respectively, with the doors 3 and 4. As here shown, the forward ends of the links have pivotal connections 9 with lugs 10 attached to the inner sides of the doors.

At the rear or inner end of the rod 5 a stop is provided to be en aged by the slide 6, so as to limit the inwar -swinging movement of the doors. As here shown, this stop consists of a collar 11 on the rod; but any other form of stop may be employed. In the operation by taking hold'of one of the doorssay, for instance, the door 3 or a knob thereon-and drawing the same outward the slide 6 will be moved along the rod or rail 5 and the door 4 will be simultaneously swung open. Reverse movement, of

course, will cause the doors to swing simultaneously to closed position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentr The combination with a cabinet and double doors therefor, of a rod arranged along and spaced above the bottom of the cabinet, a slide movable on the rod, link connections between said slide and the doors, and a stop on the rod.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM B. REES.

Witnesses:

B. B. ZrrrERT, UTTo GREENBERGER. 

